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Outtakes from Guy Webster's photo sessions for the Marble Index front and back covers, plus one that appears to be from VU's '66 stay in LA:

http://tinyurl.com/ojrmqvs

Amazing to see that for the back-cover pic, which looks so otherworldly, she was apparently standing atop a VU minibus!

Webster published an art-book last year "focusing" on his '60s period, which apparently includes the M.I. cover shot:

http://tinyurl.com/o7x5fjb

Dear Nico fans and friends all over the world,

Nico has died on the 18th of July 1988 in Ibiza 27 years ago. But nevertheless life keeps going on and Nico?s work still leaves traces.
So I felt it is about time to share my memories about my life with Nico.
This very personal story contains a lot of photos (some of them unpublished) and very rare private letters of Nico: ?Nico - In The Shadow Of The Moon Goddess?

Here is the link:http://www.amazon.com/Nico-Shadow-Godde ... M0JKQNMZR8

An free e-reader for pc, mac and smartphone is available at amazon kindle.

all the best

Lutz Graf-Ulbrich
guitar player, lover and friend of Nico?s

www.luul.de
www.facebook.com/lutzgrafulbrich

Stunning pics, thanks a lot.

Lutz Graf-Ulbrich wrote:Dear Nico fans and friends all over the world,

Nico has died on the 18th of July 1988 in Ibiza 27 years ago. But nevertheless life keeps going on and Nico?s work still leaves traces.
So I felt it is about time to share my memories about my life with Nico.
This very personal story contains a lot of photos (some of them unpublished) and very rare private letters of Nico: ?Nico - In The Shadow Of The Moon Goddess?

Here is the link:http://www.amazon.com/Nico-Shadow-Godde ... M0JKQNMZR8

An free e-reader for pc, mac and smartphone is available at amazon kindle.

all the best

Lutz Graf-Ulbrich
guitar player, lover and friend of Nico?s

http://www.luul.de
http://www.facebook.com/lutzgrafulbrich

Hi Lutz!

Good news! Thanks for letting us know about your new book!
Already got it and i'm looking forward to read it.

Best regards,
Purple Lips

Hi, I've been reading Lutz's book, and greatly enjoying it thus far. It's a warm and loving portrayal of Nico, insightful and often very funny, yet the reader gets a clear sense that the author is "pulling no punches", in other words that he is being thoroughly candid in his depiction of the events he writes about. That can be a tough enough trick to pull off with a subject who's a saint, let alone for one as famously difficult as Nico. In addition Lutz has acted as his own translator, and while the text is quite readable his English is often just a little bit "off", in way that lends it a slightly lyrical poetic quality it might not otherwise have.

As if that's not enough the book includes tons of great photos -- most (all?) are previously unpublished and, being personal candids rather than professionally-made, harmonize well with the "warts and all" approach of Lutz's text.

I don't want to sound like a sales agent or publicist, but, if you ask me, In The Shadow Of The Moon Goddess is an indispensable addition to the growing field of Nico-ography!

http://tinyurl.com/NITSOTMG

--Phil M.

P.S. I don't own a Kindle device, so I DL'd the free Kindle-for-Mac app especially to read this book.

Is there going to be a paper version?

I asked Lutz last year after an Ash Ra Tempel reunion concert, and he said no, no printed version in the foreseeable future.

Thanks. I'll try to buy Witts' book in that case